Full Coverage: Food

29.11.2005
Food security, as defined at the World Food Summit in 1996, means access by all people at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. But unfortunately, food security has remained an unachieved goal in most of poor countries including Bangladesh.

25.11.2005 Without urgent international action to deal with the consequences of this year's food crisis in Niger, the country faces a second successive year of extreme suffering and hardship, the UN World Food Programme has warned.

24.11.2005 The Punjab farmers continue to do their bit even now to ensure the countryÂ’s self-sufficiency in food. But not many of us realize that the same farmers, who produce enough food for us, are grossly indebted, suffering from multiple incurable diseases and staring at the severe problem of unemployment of wards and dependents. We need to remedy this situation very fast, through some honest and credible action. It is only then that we can say the country is getting empowered.

23.11.2005 THE Ministry of Food Processing Industry favours rationalisation of tax on processed food. The Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industry, Mr Subodh Kant Sahai, said the issue has been raised with the Finance Ministry and the State Governments. "There should be zero sales tax on perishables and 4 per cent on other food items," he said.

22.11.2005 A Zimbabwean government minister has admitted that farm seizures have led to repeated crop failures and severe food shortages.

18.11.2005 Health spending in the average farm household is double that on education each month. Millions of India's farm households are in dismal shape. Even as the number of billionaires grows at the other end of the spectrum.Mr P.Sainath addresses this question in The Hindu.

18.11.2005 Malnutrition rates have reached an almost unbelievable 50% in the southeastern region of Madagascar. Over 14,000 children are affected and 400 are likely to die without immediate intervention in the next few weeks. Flooding, high transportation costs, geographic isolation, and the falling price of vanilla are largely to blame.

17.11.2005 India has been following liberalised and open economic policies since the advent of economic reforms in 1991 and the process has accelerated after its entry into WTO in 1995. However, reforms in agriculture sector have been rather slow during the first phase of economic reforms.

17.11.2005 This Saturday is the biggest supermarket shopping day of the year in the U.S. What better time to let shoppers know about fair trade products and encourage your local store to carry fair trade-certified coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, and fruit?

11.11.2005 Thousands congregated in central Harare Tuesday to protest the widespread hunger and poverty affecting the majority of Zimbabwe's population, but police quickly moved in and quashed the demonstration.

09.11.2005 According to the Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS), over 10 million Adivasis, since Independence, have been displaced to make way for various development projects such as dams, mining, industries, roads etc. Now, with liberalisation and the domination of free market, hunger stalks the tribal areas with the collapse of the public distribution system (PDS). Deeptiman Tiwary reports for Tehelka.

08.11.2005 The week before Thanksgiving, skip a meal in honor of the over 850 million people around the world who go hungry everyday. Think about contributing the money saved to an organization that's fighting world hunger, or participate in one of the thousands of Fast for World Harvest events taking place across the U.S. and around the world.

08.11.2005 In the spotlight after his marathon win in New York City over the weekend, Paul Tergat is using his renown to support the U.N.'s World Food Program, whose school lunch program encouraged him to attend school as a youngster in Kenya.

03.11.2005 Every child who dies of hunger in today's world is the victim of an assassination, a United Nations expert on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, said in New York.